Leading in the Age of AI: A Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang | Global Conference 2026

AI is the fastest technological revolution ever seen.

ChatGPT's revolutionary aspect was its ability to generate generative AI.

The ability of AI to generate allows it to think and reason by generating thoughts (tokens).

Agentic AI, which enables AI to understand, reason, plan, and use tools, emerged in the last several months.

Anthropic's Claude model was the first agentic AI system capable of productive work like software coding.

Jensen Huang predicts future computer interactions will primarily involve users giving computers their intention, leading to generative and contextually relevant responses.

During the last US administration, President Trump's CHIPS Act led to half a trillion dollars in orders for suppliers, prompting them to build in the United States.

NVIDIA invests across the entire five-layer cake of AI, focusing on strategic points where a $1 investment can activate AI by $100.

In the last three to six months, AI-native companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have achieved extremely positive gross margins.

Guardrails in today's chatbots are significantly better than those in chatbots from two years ago.

Jensen Huang believes the best defense against a 'super force' like a hacker using advanced AI is an abundance of cheap force, specifically open-source AI.

Jeffrey Hinton, a 'godfather of AI,' suggests there is a 20-30% chance that AI could end human existence.

Jensen Huang believes the goal of capitalism is to make people more productive, give them more free time, and enable them to find newer, better ways to use their brain power.

Last year, one hundred billion dollars were invested into AI startup companies, representing the largest investment in human history, all contributing to job creation.

Jensen Huang believes American companies creating technology should allow the US government to use it in defense of the nation, provided it's constitutional and legal.